Small dust collector (version 1)

This series of articles is about builing my first small low capacity dust collector in the fall of 2012. The idea was to build something small and portable, but also much quieter and lower power consumption than a shopvac. I have since built a newer design (2014)

Building the blower
and Characterizing it
Building the Thien-baffle style cyclone
Characterizing the cyclone performance
Some modifications nine months later
and things learned from building this one.

More thoughts on dust collection - an email exchange with Phil Thien, inventor of the thien baffle

More dust collection related articles:

New dust collector design
(version 2)

Two bucket cyclone

Building a dust collector
blower

Putting together dust collector 2

Air cleaner using
a furnace filter

Photographing
airborne dust

Measuring dust with a
Dylos air quality monitor

Blower design
experiments

Mini tornado experiment

Homemade box fan

Cheap dust collector
review

Fiberglass insulation
as a dust filter

Hector Acevedo's
shopvac Thien-baffle

Jim Ryan's
"Square cyclone"

Peter Fabricius's
wooden shopvac cyclone

Fun with the
venturi effect

Alois's wood briquette
press

Ron Walters shop
machine dust extraction
improvements

Ron Walters Shopvac
cyclone separator

Jens Larsen's dust
extractor modifications

Ryszard's small dust
collector and cyclone

Ryszard's dust collector
with cyclone

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